Global Thinkers Do Better In the Online World

I've been listening to a sound file that Alan Levine captured of Nancy White's session on the Seven Competencies of Online Interaction.   Global learners do a better in the online world than sequential learners. 

• Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps,
  with each step following logically from the previous one. Global
  learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost
  randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting
  it."
  
• Sequential learners tend to follow logical stepwise paths
  in finding solutions; global learners may be able to solve complex
  problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they
  have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining
  how they did it.

Reference from Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman "Learning Styles and Strategies."